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How much does happiness matter? Preventing mental illness, understanding the effects of trauma, aging, and substance abuse, and reducing the stigma attached to behavioral disorders, scientific exploration of mental health is central to this field.

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Smoking is increasing among pregnant women with depression in the United States, according to new research at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the City University of New York. Smoking rates for pregnant women with depression climbed 2.5 percent from 2002 to 2014, in

The percentage of fatally injured drivers who tested positive for prescription opioids rose sevenfold from 1 percent in 1995 to over 7 percent in 2015, according to a new study at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. The findings appear online in the American Journal of Pub

Researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Albert Einstein College of Medicine studied the link between food allergy and childhood anxiety and depression among a sample of predominantly low socioeconomic status minority children. The results showed that children